I have followed the instructions here: http://kdenlive.org/user-manual/downloading-and-installing-kdenlive/inst...
I am compiling all to the /opt directory
--prefix=/opt
ffmpeg, frei0r, mlt, all compile fine.
But Kdenlive stops compilation at
-- checking for module 'mlt++'
-- package 'mlt++' not found
CMake Error at cmake/modules/FindLIBMLT.cmake:70 (message):
Could not find MLT++
Sorry, I know this is probably very basic, but I am a noob when it comes to these things.

any takers?